chapter 11 Flashcards
NOT ON FINAL chapter 11, #1: arousal theory of social facilitation
increase in the likelihood of highly accessible responses, and a decrease in the likelihood of less accessible responses, due to the presence of others. for behaviors that are dominant, presence of others increases arousal in a positive way. presence of others increases arousal in a negative way for nondominant behaviors
NOT ON FINAL chapter 11, #1: evaluation apprehension theory
the presence of others who are in a position to judge us produces evaluation apprehension, which changes our performance in the way predicted by social facilitation theory. if you expect to succeed in a task, you will do better if others observe you. if you expect to fail in a task, you do worse when others observe you
NOT ON FINAL chapter 11, #1: distraction theory
presence of others distracts us from the task arousal comes from trying to do 2 different things at once. scope of attention for task narrows and improves performance on difficult tasks that require picking up a relevant cue among irrelevant ones.
NOT ON FINAL chapter 11, #1: compare and contrast arousal theory of social facilitation and the evaluation apprehension theory and the distraction theory
both are theories about how the performance of a task can be influenced by social forces
NOT ON FINAL Chapter 11, #1: according to each theory, how should experts vs novices perform in a game of pool in front of an audience and why
expert pool plays will perform better in front of an interested audience because arousal increases and helps them do dominant tasks better, while novice pool players will perform worse because the arousal makes it harder to complete nondominant tasks (social facilitation). players will do as well as they expect to (evaluation apprehension). novices are more easily distracted (distraction theory)
chapter 11 #2: three forms of tasks interdependence; additive
potential of group is about equal to the sum of performances of individual members, and is generally better than any one members performance. coordination is important, final outcome proportional to the number of people contributing and how much effort they give
chapter 11 #2: three forms of tasks interdependence; disjunctive
group performance is as good as the best individual. one person has great idea in group, everyone else recognizes merit
chapter 11 #2: three forms of tasks interdependence; conjunctive
sum of group performance is only as good as its worst member. grade in group project with separate parts for each member depends on how well everyone does their part
chapter 11 #2: how does complex task use each form of task interdependence
the more people that are there to help create sets the better it will look (additive), one person may have a great idea with a way to interpret and present the play and everyone else lets them take care of it (disjunctive), if one person is a terrible actor everyone else will act at their level (conjunctive)
